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The Roumanian Jewish Crisis.

The emigration of Roumanian Jews, whose despairing spectacles are now to be seen in a number of European cities, has stirred the opponents of Zionism also to fresh activity. One would hardly believe of what sort the utterances from that quarter are. Instead of beating their breast and feeling remorse that for years they have pursued with scorn and hostility of every kind the great collective action of a national relief such as Zionism has planned, that they have sought to cripple every one of our attempts, the blame for the wandering of these desperate people — a wandering inconvenient to sundry well-situated gentlemen — is laid upon Zionism. Zionism, it seems, is to blame for the fact that the Roumanian emigrants go to Pest, Vienna, Marseilles, Paris and London. That this emigration goes not eastward but westward, the wise gentlemen do not observe. That these migrations were neither prompted nor organised by us, they are just as little willing to observe. To be sure, the Zionist committees do not throw out the poor emigrants who present themselves to them in the brutal fashion which is the habit of certain congregational boards and "charitable foundation officials." The Zionist committees rather take pains to counsel these desperate people and, so far as the available means allow, to help them. But that is also the whole participation of Zionism in the present Roumanian emigration.

Under these circumstances it is very welcome to us that we are afforded by the well-known anti-Zionist paper "The Jewish Chronicle" in London the opportunity of meeting rumours which have been set in circulation in a perfidious manner.

The "Jewish Chronicle" writes cautiously as follows: "We are reluctant to lend credence to the insinuations according to which one or more Zionist leaders have deliberately directed the emigration to England in order thereby to serve their own ends."

The "Jewish Chronicle" is right to resist such insinuations, and it would have been better had it withheld this struggle of its soul from its readers. The sad procession of these homeless wanderers is indeed a shattering proof of the correctness of the views we have maintained for years; but the leaders of Zionism have never staged such a demonstration of the poor before the rich, nor have they ever so much as wished to stage one. It is true that from the direction of the Zionist movement the watchword issued has always been one of moderation and of caution. From these planless treks we have always most decidedly dissuaded, and if it nevertheless now comes to this shameful emigration with all its evils and sufferings, then it is not the fault of Zionism, but the fault of our opponents. We greatly regret that we were not in a position to spare them this sight. They would not hear; feel they will not, even now — but see they will.

The Jews of Stanislau and the Christians of Semlin.

Your Honour!

Permit me above all to introduce myself: my name is Jakob Dežma, I am an advocate in Semlin and, thanks to the orderly conditions of our country, in a position to be able to say, not only without blushing but also without fear, that I am a Jew.

Sure as I am that all this will please you, it is by no means my purpose that you should lose some minutes of your assuredly precious time solely and only in order to obtain knowledge of the existence of my person; rather do I ask this sacrifice of you in the endeavour to furnish you with the proof that we Jews are not, in all the world, those despised pariahs whose mere touch defiles, but that on the contrary